The Promise and Premise of Creativity: Why Comparative Literature Matters - Softcover

Eoyang, Professor Eugene

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1441181032 ISBN 13: 9781441181039

Verlag: Continuum, 2012

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Argues for the usefulness of reading and studying literature by considering comparative literature in the larger context of globalization and the "clash of cultures."

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Eugene Eoyang is Professor Emeritus of English, Humanities, Translation, and General Education at Lingnan University, Hong Kong, China, and Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature and of East Asian Languages and Cultures at Indiana University, USA. He is the author of five books, including The Transparent Eye: Translation, Chinese Literature, and Comparative Poetics (University of Hawaii Press, 1993), 'Borrowed Plumage': Polemical Essays on Translation (Rodopi Publishers, 2003), and Two-Way Mirrors: Cross-Cultural Studies in Glocalization (Lexington Books, 2007) as well as the editor of three volumes, including Ai Qing: Selected Poems, Edited with an Introduction and Notes (The Foreign Languages Press/Indiana University Press, 1982; the first book co-published by a U. S. publisher and a press in the People's Republic of China) and, with Lin Yao-fu, Translating Chinese Literature (Indiana University Press, 1995). He is past President of the American Comparative Literature Association and Head of the Intercultural Committee of the International Comparative Literature Association (1997-2004).  

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• Verlag: Continuum
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1441181032
• ISBN 13: 9781441181039
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 208
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